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We study the quantum Hall plateau transition on rectangular tori. As the aspect ratio of the torus is increased, the two-dimensional critical behavior, characterized by a subthermodynamic number of topological states in a vanishing energy…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-28 Matteo Ippoliti , R. N. Bhatt

Quantized dynamics is essential for natural processes and technological applications alike. The work of Thouless on quantized particle transport in slowly varying potentials (Thouless pumping) has played a key role in understanding that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Zlata Fedorova , Haixin Qiu , Stefan Linden , Johann Kroha

Chern insulators are band insulators exhibiting a nonzero Hall conductance but preserving the lattice translational symmetry. We conclusively show that a partially filled Chern insulator at 1/3 filling exhibits a fractional quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 N. Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Topological states of interacting many-body systems are at the focus of current research due to the exotic properties of their elementary excitations. In this paper we suggest a realistic experimental setup for the realization of a simple…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-26 Fabian Grusdt , Michael Höning

The discovery of the quantization of particle transport in adiabatic pumping cycles of periodic structures by Thouless [Phys. Rev. B 27, 6083 (1983)] linked the Chern number, a topological invariant characterizing the quantum Hall effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Jiho Noh , Mohan Wang , Sheng Huang , Kevin P. Chen , Mikael C. Rechtsman

A key property of topologically ordered systems, such as Quantum Hall states, is the existence of excitations obeying fractional quantum statistics - anyons. We develop a theory for multicomponent counterflow states where an ordinary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-18 Jun-Xiao Hui , T. H. Hansson , Egor Babaev

Thouless pumping, not only achieving quantized transport but also immune to moderate disorder, has attracted growing attention in both experiments and theories. Here, we explore how particle-particle interactions affect topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 Wenjie Liu , Shi Hu , Li Zhang , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee

Photonic systems provide a highly tunable platform for emulating quantum Hall physics. This tunability enables probing of the interplay between strong disorder and robust topological transport that remains difficult to access in solid-state…

We study the anisotropic effect of the Coulomb interaction on a 1/3-filling fractional quantum Hall system by using an exact diagonalization method on small systems in torus geometry. For weak anisotropy the system remains to be an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-18 Hao Wang , Rajesh Narayanan , Xin Wan , Fuchun Zhang

Highly tunable platforms for realizing topological phases of matter are emerging from atomic and photonic systems, and offer the prospect of designing interactions between particles. The shape of the potential, besides playing an important…

We propose a theoretical scenario for pumping of fractionally charged quasi-particle in the context of $\nu=1/3$ fractional quantum Hall liquid. We consider quasi-particle pumping across an anti-dot level tuned close to the resonance.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sourin Das , Vadim Shpitalnik

Quantized Thouless pumps in periodic systems, set by Chern numbers or Wannier-center winding, is by now fairly well established, whereas its quasi-periodic extensions still require further clarification. Here, we develop a general…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Zixun Xu , Yuan Yao

We show how to implement topological or Thouless pumping of interacting photons in one dimensional nonlinear resonator arrays, by simply modulating the frequency of the resonators periodically in space and time. The interplay between…

A new manifestation of interlayer coherence in strongly polarized double layer quantum Hall systems with total filling factor $\nu=1$ in the presence of a small or zero tunneling is theoretically predicted. It is shown that moving (for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 R. Khomeriki , M. Abolfath , K. Mullen

We investigate the effect of inter-particle interaction on the quantized Thouless pump in the bosonic quasiperiodic Aubry-Andr{\'e} model and find that the quantization of the pumped charge breaks down already for weak interactions.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-27 Suman Mondal , Emmanuel Gottlob , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner , Ulrich Schneider

In nonlinear topological physics, Thouless pumping of nonlinear excitations is a central topic, often illustrated by scalar solitons. Vector solitons, with the additional spin degree of freedom, exhibit phenomena absent in scalar solitons…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-04 Xuzhen Cao , Chunyu Jia , Ying Hu , Zhaoxin Liang

We investigate the Rice-Mele model with on-cell Kerr-type nonlinearities, where the interaction depends on the total particle number within each unit cell rather than on individual sites. This interaction enables a nontrivial interplay…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-11 Zhe Wang , Xi-Wang Luo , Bo-Ye Sun , Zheng-Wei Zhou

Certain topological systems with time-varying Hamiltonian enable quantized and disorder-robust transport of excitations. Here, we introduce the modification of the celebrated Thouless pump when the on-site energies remain fixed, while the…

A fractional quantization in a two dimensional space is proposed. The angular momenta of the two dimensional electrons are quantized in fractional numbers by the boundary conditions on a multi-layered Riemann surface. Extended wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyeong Rag Lee

Using a periodic train of Lorentzian voltage pulses, which generates soliton-like electronic excitations called Levitons, we investigate the charge density backscattered off a quantum point contact in the fractional quantum Hall regime. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Flavio Ronetti , Luca Vannucci , Dario Ferraro , Thibaut Jonckheere , Jérôme Rech , Thierry Martin , Maura Sassetti